Fluent material handling – with receiver or receiver coacting mea – With conveying means to supply successive receivers
Patent
1995-02-28
1997-06-24
Recla, Henry J.
Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea
With conveying means to supply successive receivers
141177, 141231, 47901, 198576, 1988321, B67C 300, B65B 4342
Patent
active
056410085
ABSTRACT:
A plant potting machine includes a pot track for sequentially conveying plant pots along a potting path. A soil lift conveyor having a soil discharge chute lifting soil above the pot track and discharges the soil through the soil discharge chute and into those plant pots on the pot track positioned in the potting path therebelow, while a soil infeed conveyor conveys the soil from a source thereof to the soil lift conveyor. The soil flow rate between the infeed and lift conveyors is synchronized by a chain-and-sprocket synchronizer. Thus, a soil flow-control motor connected to the chain-and-sprocket synchronizer continuously drives the same so that the soil infeed and lift conveyors respectively feed and lift soil in a continuous synchronous manner to thereby effect control over the flow of soil from the soil source to the discharge chute. The potting machine preferably has coordinated indexing and soil drilling assemblies so as to respectively advance the plant pots along the potting path and drill a recess in the soil deposited into the plant pots by the lift conveyor. The speeds of the soil flow-control motor and a drill motor associated with the drilling assembly are most preferably variably controlled independently by logic programmable controllers (LCP's). The rate at which the pot track indexes and the drilling assembly reciprocates is most preferably controlled via a variable speed pulley system.
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Maust Timothy L.
Recla Henry J.
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